Appendix A. Appendix A. Building OpenAFS from Source Code

Create and mount a volume for housing the OpenAFS source tree. These instructions name the volume src.afs and mount it at the /afs/cellname/afs/src directory.

Setting the -maxquota argument to 0 (zero) sets an unlimited quota on the volume, which enables you to copy all of the files into the volume without exceeding its quota. If you wish, you can set the volume's quota to a finite value after you complete the copying operation. At that point, use the vos examine command to determine how much space the volume is occupying. Then issue the fs setquota command to set a quota that is slightly larger.

   # vos create <machine name> <partition name> src.afs -maxquota 0 
   # cd /afs/.cellname
   # mkdir afs
   # fs mkmount afs/src src.afs
   # vos release root.cell
   # fs checkvolumes

Download the latest stable OpenAFS source distribution (openafs-src.X.Y.Z.tar.gz) from openafs.org to the local /tmp directory.

In the local /tmp directory, unpack the source archive.

   # cd /tmp
   # gzip -dc openafs-src-X.Y.Z.tar.gz | tar xvf -

Copy the source files from the unpacked archive into the newly created volume.

   # cd /tmp/openafs-X.Y.Z
   # cp -rp  *  /afs/.cellname/afs/src